Rockets

General Information

A rocket is a type of ammunition that can be fired in flight, from a ground vehicle and from warship. There are two groups of rockets: anti-ground and anti-aircraft.

Some rockets explode on impact and some have their own fuse. The rocket contains a thruster, fuel and explosive.

Vehicles carrying rockets

An SB2-C Helldiver firing a Tiny Tim rocket

For a list of vehicles see Suspended armaments. Most common on planes and helicopters it can also be found on ground vehicles and ships.

Multi-nozzle rocket description

Rocket structure

There are several types of rockets, but here is described Multi-nozzle rocket:

• Head
  • Nose & base fuze - What ensures an explosion after impact
  • High explosive - An explosive that destroys the target
  • Igniter - It allows the rocket to be launched not only after impact, but also in the air
• Motor
  • Cruciform propellant powder grain - Rocket fuel
  • Grain support space - It ensures that the fuel does not overflow
  • Central nozzle with blowout seal surrounded by eight other nozzles - Rocket propulsion
  • Fins - For direct rocket flight

Rocket groups

There are several types of rockets, such as anti-aircraft or anti-ground.

Anti-ground

The most common type of rockets is anti-ground rockets.

Anti-aircraft

It is used to destroy other planes, it has its own fuse.

Aiming Rockets

To make sure your rockets hit you have to take into account many factors like distance, relative motion and accuracy of rockets. Modern planes have a ballistic computer which will do those calculations for you the socalled CCIP but you still have to make sure you fire the rockets from a distance where dispersion is low.

Planes

The dumb rocket aiming crosshair.

On old planes you will get a so called ladder crosshair which helps aiming rockets. But i don't know how it works so someone else will have to write this chapter.